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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 30, 2024
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2019
Board of Trustees of Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI (US);
Qi Hua Fan, Okemos, MI (US);
Martin E. Toomajian, Brighton, MI (US);
Thomas Schuelke, Pinckney, MI (US);
Board of Trustees of Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI (US);
Abstract
A vertically oriented plasma reactor is provided. In another aspect, a plasma reactor includes a vertically elongated vacuum chamber, a wall internally projecting within a middle section of the housing, magnets, electrodes and a radio frequency source. A further aspect employs a workpiece-entry port and an opposite workpiece material-exit port, with one located adjacent a top end and the other adjacent a bottom end of a vertically elongated reactor housing or vacuum chamber. Yet another aspect employs a moving or falling-bed plasma reactor for use in activating biochar material.